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    VESSEL NAME:   Marshall F. Butters
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   91408
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 October 1916
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, 12 miles southeast of Southeast Shoal light.
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, steam-barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Milwaukee Shipyard Company, 1882
    OWNER(S):      Stearns Salt & Lumber Co., Ludington, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. Charles E. McClure
    TONNAGE:       376.39 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    164 x 30 x 10
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     15

               Built for Butters, Peters & Co., of Ludington.

               Carrying lumber from Midland, Ont., to Cleveland when she
            when a brutal storm set in.  The crew was all saved thanks to a
            daring rescue by the steamers FRANK BILLINGS (Hutchinson fleet)
            and FRED G. HARTWELL (Tomlinson fleet).

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1885, 1889, 1910, 1913
         Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1907
         Annual Report of the Auditor General, State of Michigan, 1915
         Buffalo Daily Courier; 21, 27 October 1916
         Marine Review, Vol. 46, 1916
         Mills, Rodney H. "Wooden Steamers on the Great Lakes"